"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] impnospamorg> wrote in message
news:41dc3630$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > Can we register other url's and point them to the same IP address? e.g.
> > www.wikipov.org ?
> >
>
> Sure, but in the DNS server do it as a CNAME record for
> povray.tirnalong.com instead of an A record with the IP address.  That
> way one DNS edit will update them all if for some reason I need to move
> the server to another IP address.

Done - wikipov.org is now registered with a * CNAME records only (i.e. no A
record)

FYI

; zonefile for wikipov.org created by DNS Management.
; last modified : 6-1-2005 at 12:14:27  from logged host :
@                     IN   SOA   ns1.bb-online.net.
robert.mail.bb-online.net (
                      2004042602 14400 7200 345600 86400 )
                      IN   NS     ns1.bb-online.net.
                      IN   NS     ns2.bb-online.net.
                      IN   NS     brain.bb-online.co.uk.
                      IN   MX     10 mail2.bb-online.co.uk.
                      IN   MX     20 mail3.bb-online.co.uk.
*			IN   CNAME   povray.tirnalong.com.

And BTW dunno if they're the cheapest, but the staff at
http://www.nominate.com/ are very nice and helpful...

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